Drought

[MaryN]

I think the problem is, in very built-up areas like the UK, problems like water shortages very quickly escalate to more than mere irritation. Unfortunately the water authorities/Government have not kept pace with the massive increase in housing (immigration-fueled) by building additional water reservoirs. Much like the hospitals really - I do not understand why no-one seems to connect the increasing shortfalls in hospital beds with the rise in the population, when very few hospitals have been built in recent years. Seems obvious to me - oh well! Stupidly, with additional housing being built on flood-plain areas, any inundation above average increases the risk of flooding and of course there is no way to capture the rainfall. Similarly, flooding occurs very easily on large concreted areas where there is no way the water can sink into the earth. I suppose each country has its problems, but comparing the UK to the US doesn't really work.